Information Systems Department

Boston University School of Management

Information Systems Department

Our Mission. Information Systems Faculty. Whether our research and teaching is technically-focused or PROFESSORS organizationally-oriented, we seek to understand the impact Jeffrey Allen, Assistant Professor and implications of information systems and technology on Allen earned his PhD in information systems, his MS in risk business strategy, processes, and operations. management and insurance, and an MBA from Georgia State The Information Systems Department is ranked among the University. He received his BBA from the University of Georgia. His top 10 IS departments in the US by The Wall Street Journal’s research interests include microcomputer playfulness, technology adoption, decision support systems, and financial planning in the most recent ranking. professional athletic environment.

Research Interests. Paul Carlile, Associate Professor • Emergent Network forms of markets and organizations: Carlile received his PhD from the University of Michigan and his MS how markets and organizations can be effectively designed from Brigham Young University. His primary interest is in innovation and how to design teams, organizations, or network platforms to given the pervasive availability of new information and accelerate their capacity for innovation. In particular he focuses communication technologies. This includes the study on how information and knowledge must move across boundaries of new forms of alliances and networks as well as new (designer and user, producer and consumer, disciplines). communities and new processes. John Chalykoff, Professor; Chair; Associate Dean, • Organizational Capability through new technologies: Academic Programs; and Faculty Director, MS·MBA Program understanding how to leverage new technologies such as Chalykoff earned his PhD in management from MIT. His research mobile Internet, new telecommunications technologies, focus is on privacy issues in electronic commerce and the RFID, mote technologies and visualization tools. implications of the knowledge economy for higher education. • Investing in IT: the economic issues pertaining to Kathleen Foley Curley, Research Professor and investment in IT and how best to leverage value from Director of Education for the Institute for Global Work (IGW) new IT function. Curley earned her DBA in management of technology and her MBA from Harvard University. She received her AB from Smith College in economics. Her research interests include the management of global virtual teams, organizational agility, and outsourcing business processes.

Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Associate Professor Dellarocas holds a PhD and an MS in computer science from MIT and a diploma in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. His research lies at the intersection between information systems, economics, and policy. The focus of his work is the study of the rapidly growing online “word-of-mouth” communities and their impact on marketing, product development, and public opinion formation. He also studies the use of online reputation mechanisms as a low-cost trust-building device in electronic markets.

James Freedman, Assistant Professor Freedman earned his DBA in information systems from Boston University and his BS from Northeastern University. Freedman brings a unique perspective having held positions of increasing responsibility during his 30 years in the software consulting industry prior to earning his doctorate. His current research focus is on knowledge worker productivity and internal knowledge markets.

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John Henderson, Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management Bin Zhu, Assistant Professor and Faculty Director, Institute for Global Work (IGW) Zhu earned her PhD in management information systems Henderson earned his PhD in operations research from the from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on four main knowledge management, human computer interaction, information areas: managing strategic partnerships, aligning business and visualization, computer-mediated communication, information IT strategies, the impacts of mobile internet, and knowledge retrieval, and organizational memory. management. RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS Michael Lawson, Professor and Senior Associate Dean Lawson received his PhD in economics from the University of Iowa. Carlile, P. R.( 2009). An Historical Shift for Science-Based Drug He earned his MA and BA in economics from California State Discovery? Sloan Management Review. University at Long Beach. His research focus is on the economics of Gaynor, M., Myung, D., Restuccia, J., & Moulton, S. (2009, industry transformation and on the development of research-based forthcoming). Designing infrastructure to exchange electronic business cases for graduate and executive programs. medical records with web services. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations, 6(2). Lihui Lin, Assistant Professor Lin earned her PhD in economics from the University of Texas Lin, L. (2009). Impacts of organizational learning and knowledge at Austin. Her research studies the creation and transfer of transfer on investment decisions under uncertainty. Forty-Second technological knowledge, focusing on the impacts of uncertainty, Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. network effects, and information asymmetry. Her work has appeared Swanborg, R. (2009). Mitre’s journey to leveraging knowledge. in premier journals including MIS Quarterly, Management Science, and CIO Magazine. the Journal of Management Information Systems. Venkatraman, N. (2009). Product Leadership in a Network Era. Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor Chapter in Jeff Word (Ed.) Business Network Transformation. New Van Alstyne completed his PhD in information systems and York: Jossey-Bass. economics, and his MS, at MIT. He earned his BA in computer science from Yale. His research focuses on information economics, including Watts, S., Shankar, G., & Even, A. (2009). Data Quality the economics of networks, valuing information, productivity effects Assessment in Context: A Cognitive Perspective. Decision Support of IT, technology platforms, and intellectual property. Systems. 48(1), 202-211.

N. Venkatraman, David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in Management TEACHING FACULTY Venkatraman earned his PhD in strategic management from the Richard Swanborg, Executive-in-Residence University of Pittsburgh and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. He received his undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. His research For general inquiries, please contact: interests include IT strategy and sourcing, a network-centric view of Christopher Tuite business strategy, and theory construction in strategy and IT. Senior Program Coordinator Email: [email protected] Stephanie Watts, Associate Professor Phone: (617) 353-2523 Watts earned her DBA and MS•MIS in management information Fax: (617) 353-5003 systems from Boston University. Her research examines the impact of computer mediated technologies on knowledge management and on the design of technology solutions.

George Wyner, Assistant Professor Wyner received his PhD in management from MIT and his AB in mathematics from Harvard College. His primary research interests are in representation, classification, analysis, and design of organizational processes. His related interests include systems analysis, new organizational forms, coordination theory, computer- supported cooperative work, and information technology-enabled distributed design.

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